Best Of 2019

ZN Photog June 28, 2019

This year the Best Of Columbia County was held at the PS21 building.

I was also a runner up for Visual Artist.

click here to view the photos larger and if you were apart of the event

Famous Artist #6

ZN Photog June 27, 2019

Richard Prince

Born 1949 and is 69

He is famous for reproducing cigarette ads and taking out the ad and leaving the photo of the cowboys. “rephotographing”

Richard was drawn to the city by a photo of Franz Kline looking outside his studio.

Richard built his 2nd house in upstate NY called the “mini museum that was bought by the Guggenheim Museum which was sadly burnt down by a big storm.

His first solo show was in 1980 at the CEPA gallery in Buffalo NY.

He has been sued many time for his repurposing other peoples work. A more recent case was when he took screen shots on IG posts and added his comment to it and printed them out.

He has done many series of work and still makes art to this day.

Hike #23

ZN Photog June 23, 2019

There are a few things to look for when on the trail. There is a pond, stream as well as a big rock ledge. There is no marker trail to go on top of the rocks but at one point on the trail it looks like there is one.

Harris Conservation. Its a very easy to navigate park , with markers every few feet and the paths that are easy to follow. For the most part everything is flat with a few hills.

Famous Artist #5

Zach Neven June 20, 2019

Willem de Kooning

Born 1904 and died 1997

His style of work is abstract expressionist also known as action painting, using motion as well as showing motion with brush strokes.

He left school to be work with a commercial artist firm than did night classes at an art and science school in Rotterdam. Which is today its called Willem de Kooning Academie.

In 1926 he was a stowaway on a ship that landed in Virginia. While being in the US he became a house painter and doing commercial art as well.

He helped design murals as being apart of the art union.

He became a full time artist by doing commissions and teaching lessons with out having American citizenship.